research presented in this paper is to investigate characteristics andacademic interests of CCSD CATA students enrolled in engineering curricula. Various factorswere investigated that influenced a student to attend a CATA engineering program and thestudent’s choice to pursue a baccalaureate in engineering.HypothesesFour research hypotheses were formulated for this study. They are: (1) students whose parents orfamily members who are employed or have been employed in an engineering related industry aremore likely to select engineering as an area of study in high school; (2) students whose parents orfamily members are employed in or have been employed in an engineering related industry aremore likely to plan to pursue an engineering baccalaureate; (3
the innovativeness of the product designed by the engineers is generally more importantthan the sheer creative ability of the engineer, we chose to measure the creativity of the resultingdesigns. We measure the creative outcomes using two metrics. The first, originality, measuresthe level of innovativeness of the concepts for hypothesis 1a&b and 2, where as the second,quality, measures the technical feasibility of the concepts for hypothesis 1c.OriginalityOriginality, based on the metric developed by Charyton and Merril30, is estimated at the overallconcept level using Table 1. The original metric recommended a 0-10 scale, but we have adaptedit to a 5-point scale to keep with Likert scale standards and for coding ease. We tested
water; and continuously neglecting the environment. Thishas spawned a new challenge for engineers, scientists, and businessmen and women. Not onlyare engineers and scientists expected to research, develop, and implement technology to improvethe economy, they are also expected to accomplish this economic growth without compromisingthe environment for future generations. In addition, businessmen and women will be expected tomarket these new technologies.At the time this research paper was written, the price of oil had risen to approximately $127.93for a barrel.1 As the cost of energy has increased, Americans are looking for ways to reduce theamount of energy used and become a more sustainable nation. Some Americans have begunpurchasing fuel
within civilengineering also gives students exposure to many areas of civil engineering practice and ideasfor research within their graduate studiesOverview of the Course: The seminar consists of a minimum of fourteen one-hour presentations during thecourse of each semester. Six of the seminars are presented by students (2 students perseminar for a total of 12 students per semester) and the remaining eight seminars arepresented by outside speakers. One professional development hour is awarded toprofessional engineers for attending each seminar, and two professional developmenthours are awarded to professional engineer speakers. The seminar is organized in a“brown bag” format from 12:30-1:30 pm every Thursday. The Civil
itself to the21st Century Learning Skills. The Academic Staff College encourages innovation and creativityamong its faculty and supports the introduction of new pedagogical methods and new learningapproaches in delivering instruction. It has positioned itself as a forerunner to bring about theparadigm shift from “teaching to learning.” New initiatives with particular reference to WIPRO‟s Project 1, an academia industrypartnership between WIPRO, a global IT and Engineering Enterprise and VIT University hasproduced a metamorphosis in the teaching learning process at the University. Individual learninghas been replaced with collaborative and group learning; lectures have been complemented withrole play, simulation, word games and group
their teachingwork.2 IntroductionCloud computing represents the latest evolution in computing architecture. By definition, cloudcomputing refers to “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a sharedpool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released withminimal management or service provider interaction.”1 Cloud computing, coupled withubiquitous access through smart phones, tablets, and other internet enabled devices, hasrevolutionized software architecture and potentially will uproot traditional desktop computing.Cloud computing does not represent new technology. Rather, it is the latest manifestation oflarge scale computing systems dating back to the 1970s when time shared systems
pertinent information necessitateallocating significant class time, which may be prohibitive for those technical instructors whotake an integrated approach. Small cases are much more contained: “By their nature,” Lynch andKlein note, “small cases can never be presented in full ethnographic detail. . . .”1 “All elseequal,” suggests Michael Davis of Illinois Institute of Technology’s Center for the Study ofEthics in the Professions, “the shorter the case, the better.”2Second, small cases allow students to more fully exercise their moral imagination, the ability toexamine an ethical problem from multiple perspectives. Even very small cases, remarks DavidJonassen, exhibit “myriad perspectives.”3 Indeed, as Harvard faculty member Kenneth Winstonexplains
provided at the end ofthe paper. Question 2 regarding the topics covered changed according to the content includedeach program year. A total of 34 students responded to the surveys. Response rates (Table 1) forthe 2007 survey were between 40% - 60% for each cohort, while for the 2010 emailed surveywere around 25% for each group. Eight of the 34 respondents were still in high school at thetime the survey was administered, all in the 2007 survey. All other respondents were currentlyenrolled in a university program. We did not survey a control group of students who did notparticipate in the outreach program. Page 22.711.4Table 1. Cohort size and response rates for the surveys. Students
AssistantsOne purpose of open-ended problem solving in engineering education is to emulate professionalpractice – provide students with authentic problem-solving experiences. Engagement in theseexperiences alone is not sufficient for meeting multiple learning objectives that may range fromdeveloping conceptual understandings to developing analytical skills to developing engineering“habits of mind”1. There must be supports for providing high impact instruction, feedback, andassessment that ensure learning along desired trajectories. These might include instructortraining, mentoring, and task specific support materials. How these supports are used byinstructors will depend on, among other things, their educational background, teachingexperience, and
group participated in the morning session and thecontrol group participated in the afternoon session. Students received instruction in mathematicsconcepts and, in the case of the integrated mathematics and engineering program, students alsoreceived instruction in the engineering design process as well as in building and programmingwith LEGO-robotics. The students were randomly assigned into a team of three and wereprovided orientation regarding the cameras‟ set-up at each of their tables for the duration of theweek. After the novelty wore off, students were relaxed around the cameras and they workedand discussed comfortably, generally disregarding the equipment (see Figure 1). Figure 1 Students working in a videotaping-setup
. Page 22.714.4Tutorial Design OverviewAs one might expect, the tutorial series includes “how to” modules to teach students practicalaspects of library use (e.g., how to connect to full text from a database). But the series isorganized around a central “hub” (see Figure 1), designed to teach students when and why theymight use a particular kind of literature. The hub introduces students to a range of engineeringliterature and provides an entry point to further instruction.Figure 1. Tutorials are organized around general categories of engineering literature.An instance of this hub can be customized for a course or for a research lab. For example, amodule describing the role of conference proceedings uses citations to papers from a conferencein
grade students engage in drawing and artifactconstruction when tasked with an engineering design problem. The study addresses threeresearch questions: 1. How does a first grade student’s drawing of their planned solution to an engineering design problem address the problem requirements? 2. What is the relationship between first grade students’ drawing of their planned solution and their constructed artifact? 3. What is the relationship between first grade students’ drawing of their planned solution and the success of their constructed artifact?BackgroundProfessional engineers design bridges, bubble gum, computers, cars, and more. They start byidentifying a need or problem and end with carefully
𝐾 = 1 − 𝑝expectedWith 1.0 as a maximum, Kappa scores of approximately 0.70 and above indicate goodagreement13. As seen in Table 1, the results reflected quite good consistency between the twosemester data sets. Scores at the category level are similarly high, indicating agreement if aphrase was or was not tagged with any contained speech act by both annotators. Also includedare the speech act tag descriptions and sample phrases seen in posts. Speech Act Tag Description Sample Cue Phrases Kappa Question Category Represents a question N/A 0.94 A
couldinvestigate effects of cooperative versus competitive play. The intent was to design the game totarget specific, limited, learning outcomes so that we can measure its effect.The Game EnvironmentOur game is called Spumone. We have built it from scratch. It is still in its early stages ofdevelopment, so elements of the game are changing all the time. The general premise is that thestudent/player controls a vehicle which we call the spuCraft as it explores a labrynthian,subterranean world. A screenshot is shown in Figure 1. Page 22.717.3 Figure 1. Screenshot of
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 First year engineering students are strikingly impoverished in their self-concept as professional engineersRecruitment to and retention of students in engineering programs and engineering careers isproblematic. While the number varies considerably by institution, nationally a third of studentsdrop out of science and engineering undergraduate programs by their second year; only a thirdcomplete their science or engineering degree by six years. Students intending a science orengineering major in their freshman year often switch to other academic departments, andapproximately 20 percent drop out of college altogether 1.Recruitment and retention of women in engineering
collapse of compulsory student unionism in Australia in 2006 there are fewer social orsporting activities available to students on our suburban campus and less opportunity to formfriendships.To help commencing engineering students transition smoothly into university life; a space wascreated at the Mawson Lakes Campus for them to study, do group work, and develop peernetworks. It was conceived as a space that would enhance students’ social and learningengagement by giving them a sense of community and belonging. The space became operationalin 2009 and is called the Experience 1 Studio. This space is open plan with a flexible layout.Apart from individual or group study and project work students use the space in a variety ofways, for example, to
prior to the course that they were participating in a pilotprogram. They were notified that these design projects were new and that their feedback wouldbe used to improve the projects and the course. The distribution of the majors is shown in the Page 22.720.3table below. Many of the students choose either electrical or mechanical engineering. A fewstudents have not selected an engineering major or were not College of Engineering students.Table 1. ENG1001 Engineering Major As part of this pilot project, the team design projects Distribution completed were: wind energy, biomechanics andEngineering Major
keeper concepts)of first-year engineering students towards the relationship between environment/ecology andengineering.This project was guided by the following research questions: (1) What is the knowledge andattitude level of first-year engineering students in regards to environmental and ecological issues,in particular pertaining to environmental issues and their relation to engineering? (2) What arethe baseline threshold or gatekeeper concepts of first-year students and how will a sustainableengineering module affect these baseline concepts, concepts that help students to transformexisting knowledge of the relationship between environmental issues and engineering into deeperconceptual understanding?Literature Review: Sustainable
Page 22.722.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 First-Year Women on the Engineering Pathway: Research Strategies to Support RetentionIntroductionThis research was initiated to address two disturbing trends seen in undergraduate education atthe national level and an equally disturbing trend within our own university, the University ofColorado at Boulder. While women have historically been underrepresented in STEM fields,the number of women in the biological and life sciences has grown to nearly one half, andnearly one third of chemists are women; nevertheless, women compose less than 15% of theengineering population.1 Additionally, the proportion of women over
experiments thatwere developed include the study of free and forced vibration on various 1-DOF, 2-DOF, and 3-DOF vibration systems, with or without damping. Other experiments include designing adynamic absorber visualizing modes of vibration, and determining the mechanical impedance..In a 2010 ASEE Conference paper, four free-vibration experiments were described in detail.1 Inthis paper five forced-vibration experiments are described in detail, as well as their impact on thestudent learning outcomes for the course. Other experiments may be developed without theturnkey apparatuses such as investigating vibrations of guitars or compressors. All experimentswere developed and refined over several years. Student surveys have indicated that thelaboratory
authors have been interested in merging engineering and art.The course provided an opportunity for the student, who is a dancer and choreographer and isspecifically interested in movement studies, to explore the interface of art and fluid dynamics.Some general and review materials are presented below prior to the specific coursedocumentation.Most people consider artists and scientists as dissimilar groups. The latter is associated withmathematics and logic while the former is associated with feelings and emotion. Although theseassociations are true, some people have argued about similarities between the fields of art andscience. Their efforts have been documented in books,1-3 presentations at conferences,4,5 andperformances at exhibitions.6,7 If
brought together academic leaders and scholars from both engineering and theliberal arts to explore models for integrating engineering and the traditional liberal arts.The examples presented are grouped into five different aspects of undergraduate engineeringeducation, addressing different phases of students’ progress, recognizing that fosteringinnovation must be a continuous process: 1. Projects that focus on first year or introductory material 2. Projects that focus on core engineering courses 3. Projects that focus on capstone and extra-curricular experiences 4. Projects that span the curriculum 5. Faculty professional development to support projectsThe paper also reviews research results linking innovative capacity to the
“Engineering Strategies and Practice”(ESP) representing the other, as seen in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. The word-frequencydistributions from the other courses fall between these two extremes. Samples from the rawword sets for these two exams are included in the appendix as Table 1 and 2, respectively.The data shows that the occurrence of words which we might assume are very familiar, such as“name”, “clear”, or “length”, are not particularly frequent (nor consistently infrequent).Additionally, the data illustrates that mathematics exams, especially Calculus I, generally havefewer words than other exam types. The data also demonstrates that all exams have a roughlyhyperbolic distribution of words per Zipf’s law; some words occurring extremely
analyzed. c) Data Analysis Data were analyzed with assessment elements for each portfolio: 1) for pencil portfolio usingsix assessment variables (contour drawing, negative space drawing, value drawing, one-point ortwo-point perspective field sketching, line qualities in pencil master drawing and value in pencilmaster drawing). 2) for ink portfolio using three assessment variables (ink drawing with dots, inkdrawing with crosshatching and ink perspective drawing) 3) for color portfolio using fourassessment variables ( line qualities, value, media combination and perspective). Data werecalculated by frequency distributions method. Since the objective of this study is to evaluatefreshmen’s drawing ability with different media, the assessment
theengineering workforce. A 2009 NSF Workshop on Enhancing the Post-9/11 VeteransEducational Benefit1 indicates that new, more generous veterans’ educational benefits create anopportunity to expand the technical workforce while benefitting those who have served ourcountry. The workshop further indicates that the veterans include a diverse and qualified pool offuture talent for the nation’s engineering and science employers.There are two main aspects to this Kansas State University project: (1) an accelerated track forveterans into bachelor’s degrees in engineering for those with no bachelor’s degree or with anon-technical degree and (2) bridging to engineering master’s degrees for those with bachelor’sdegrees in technical non-engineering areas. The
based nanotransistor, single-electron transistor, spintronics, quantumcomputing, bioelectronic circuits, etc. Students show intense interest in these excitingtopics. Some students also choose nanoelectronics as the topic for their masterproject/thesis, and perform successful research in the field. The program has attractedmany graduate students into the field of nanoelectronics.1. Introduction to NanaoelectronicsIn the past decades, VLSI technology has achieved tremendous progress. Based onVLSI technology, computers and information technology have greatly changed thelife style of our modern human society. In the VLSI industry, there has been aconstant drive to shrink the size of transistors [1]. In this way, more and moretransistors can be
, and credit vary widely.Two distinct approaches to first course design can be categorized as either (1) an “overview,seminar-type, low or no credit experience” vs (2) an “immersive, full-credit first course in thetechnical material of the discipline.” The goals of the two types of courses differ to some extent,and both can be successful but a literature review seems to suggest that experiences of type 1have met with less success than those of type 2.Substantial success at Carnegie Mellon University is reported for a carefully designed firstcourse of type 2 for Mechanical Engineering students2. At WPI an introductory ECE course ofthis type is in place in the students’ second semester, and in the students’ first term an intense,immersive, full
fixedparameter based controller performance with the fuzzy logic-based auto tuning controller.Key Words: Fuzzy Tuning, PMDC Motor Controller, and Simulink Model.1. IntroductionThe purpose of using electric drives in the field of motor control is the precise control of themotor (the speed, the torque, and the position of the shaft) and saving energy. A recent study bythe United States Department of Energy points out that the conservation methods using electricdrives can save energy equal to the annual electricity use by the entire state of New York1.Typically, two types of motors are used in the industry: alternating current (AC) motors anddirect current (DC) motors. The AC motors are often used in industrial application because oftheir capability to
without any prior knowledge of archival processingprinciples and terminology. The client application of AT was installed on computers located atthe Engineering Library and linked to the newly created repository of finding aids designated as“Engineering Technical Reports and Publications”. The repository was created on an existing Page 22.733.5MYSQL backend database on a Windows server (Fig. 1).Fig.1 Finding Aids RepositoriesThe client software facilitates the data entry workflow for creating collection records and itemrecords. For the purpose of the work described in this paper, only the AT client software wasused by the Engineering Library staff
plagiarism problem came from the Directorof Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, who reported an 85% increase in plagiarism casesbetween 2007 and 2009 (88 cases in 2007-08 vs. 163 in 2008-09). For the most current year(July 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010) 125 cases of academic dishonesty were reported, of which64% (n=80) involved plagiarism. It is especially noteworthy that these data indicate (1) themajority of academic dishonesty cases reported on our campus involved plagiarism, and (2) thefrequency was increasing.In early 2009, the library learned of plans for the formation of a university-wide AcademicIntegrity Task Force. The charge of the committee was to determine if there was an issue withacademic integrity on campus; ascertain if there